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We Need to Expand the Definition of Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. Uber doesn’t.

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Why the X Games Won’t Dethrone the Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The disruptive innovator first targets a market segment that embraces those tradeoffs and builds a business model around simplicity and affordability. Next, can the disruptive idea improve to move into broader market segments? The X Games clearly succeed here. But different is not disruptive.

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Why Retail Clinics Failed to Transform Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The idea of disruptive innovation, a concept pioneered by the Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen and written about previously in HBR and in a book that one of us co-authored, is that industries are more commonly transformed by new entrants, rather than entrenched players. Ultimately, as long as the U.S.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

The right question is not whether its time to split HR, but rather why are leaders so much less sophisticated about talent than about financial capital?

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